Wings (1966 film)

Wings

Theatrical release poster
Directed by Larisa Shepitko
Produced by V. Maslov
Written by Valentin Ezhov
Natalya Ryazantseva
Music by Roman Ledenyov
Cinematography Igor Slabnevich
Edited by L. Lysenkova
Production
company
Release dates
  • 10 November 1966 (1966-11-10)
Running time
 81 minutes
Country Soviet Union
Language Russian

Wings (Russian: Крылья, tr. Krylya) is a 1966 Soviet black-and-white drama film directed by Larisa Shepitko, her first feature film made after graduating from the All-Russian State Institute for Cinematography.

Plot

Nadezhda Petrukhina, a once heroic Soviet fighter pilot, is now living a quiet, disappointingly ordinary life as a school principal.

Cast

Party Guests
Minor Characters

Release

The film was released on DVD by The Criterion Collection in 2008 through its Eclipse series as part of a box set together with The Ascent.[1]

Reception

Film critic Paul Schrader chose the film as one of his top ten favorite Criterion releases.[2] Critic Jonathan Rosenbaum has called it a "lovely and nuanced character study,"[3] an analysis repeated by critic Michael Koresky's description of the film as a "penetrating character study."[4] Critic David Sterritt wrote that it is "a remarkable movie, especially for a directorial debut,"[5] while another critic, Dave Kehr, wrote that Shepitko learned from Alexander Dovzhenko how "to bend documentary style realism to more subjective, poetic ends".[6] Similarly, Senses of Cinema praised the film's "rich layers of meaning,"[7] DVD Verdict wrote that the "most astonishing thing about Wings is how young Shepitko was when she directed it. It feels like the work of an older director, one who would understand what it's like to live in the shadow of your younger self" and that much of the film's "success leans on the performance of Bulgakova, and she does deliver a phenomenal performance. On a whole, the film doesn't stand out in terms of its storytelling or cinematography, but as a sensitive human portrait, it truly is remarkable,"[8] and critic Dennis Schwartz called it a "brilliantly conceived work of art."[9] In Sight & Sound's 2012 survey of 846 critics, programmers, academics, and distributors as well as 358 directors intended to decide which are greatest films ever made, the film reached the 588th place in the critics' poll with Sergio Grmek Germani and Erica Gregor giving it their votes and the 322nd place in the directors' poll with Carol Morley and Vlado Škafar voting for the film.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Wings". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  2. ↑ "Paul Schrader’s Top 10". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  3. ↑ Rosenbaum, Jonathan (1 September 1996). "Wings". Chicago Reader. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  4. ↑ Koresky, Michael (11 August 2008). "Eclipse Series 11: Larisa Shepitko". The Criterion Collection. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  5. ↑ Sterritt, David. "Krylya aka Wings". TCM: Turner Classic Movies. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  6. ↑ Kehr, Dave (19 August 2008). "New DVDs: Larisa Shepitko". The New York Times, p. E4. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  7. ↑ Bingham, Adam (December 2009). "No Angels: Larisa Shepitko's Wings". Senses of Cinema, Cinémathèque Annotations on Film, Issue 53. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  8. ↑ Pearce, Joel (25 August 2008). "Larisa Shepitko". DVD Verdict. Retrieved 1 February 2014.
  9. ↑ Schwartz, Dennis (3 September 2008). "Brilliantly Conceived Work of Art". Ozu's World Movie Reviews. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
  10. ↑ "Votes for Krylya (1966): The Greatest Films of All Time 2012". Sight & Sound. Retrieved 1 February 2014.

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